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    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
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    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land

    By Will Weaver

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    A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted from the paperback original, Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories (Borealis Books, 2006), by Will Weaver.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMinnesota Historical Society Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9780873518802
    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
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    Will Weaver

    Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends.

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